He describes Willow Creek as "kingly", Reformed as "prophetic", and emerging as "priestly." I agreed with him--giving a couple lengthy comments--trying to show that the "kingly" has particular strength with regard to evangelism.

I pastor a church with a large staff and so I give 15+ hours
a week to preparing the sermon. I would not advise younger ministers to spend
so much time, however. When I was a pastor without a staff I put in 6-8 hours
on a sermon. If you put in too much time in your study on your sermon you put
in too little time being out with people as a shepherd and a leader. Ironically,
this will make you a poorer preacher.

There he talked about how he plans sermons far ahead of time, reads lots of newspapers and books, and believes it takes 3,000 sermons to become a good preacher. He says he did less preparation in his early years of preaching. He only decided to make his preparation more tight after he had to preach multiple times the same sermon. He talked about liking:

but likes to put the theological aspect at the end of the sermon after the application.

They have also just recently announced that 150 Keller sermons are now available on the Redeemer website for free. Free Sermon Resource.

The June cover story of Christianity Today profiled Keller: How Tim Keller Found Manhattan
The pastor of Redeemer Church is becoming an international figure
because he's a local one. By Tim Stafford | posted 6/05/2009 09:47AM

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He describes Willow Creek as "kingly", Reformed as "prophetic", and emerging as "priestly." I agreed with him--giving a couple lengthy comments--trying to show that the "kingly" has particular strength with regard to evangelism.

I pastor a church with a large staff and so I give 15+ hours
a week to preparing the sermon. I would not advise younger ministers to spend
so much time, however. When I was a pastor without a staff I put in 6-8 hours
on a sermon. If you put in too much time in your study on your sermon you put
in too little time being out with people as a shepherd and a leader. Ironically,
this will make you a poorer preacher.

There he talked about how he plans sermons far ahead of time, reads lots of newspapers and books, and believes it takes 3,000 sermons to become a good preacher. He says he did less preparation in his early years of preaching. He only decided to make his preparation more tight after he had to preach multiple times the same sermon. He talked about liking:

but likes to put the theological aspect at the end of the sermon after the application.

They have also just recently announced that 150 Keller sermons are now available on the Redeemer website for free. Free Sermon Resource.

The June cover story of Christianity Today profiled Keller: How Tim Keller Found Manhattan
The pastor of Redeemer Church is becoming an international figure
because he's a local one. By Tim Stafford | posted 6/05/2009 09:47AM